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Citing safety violations, inadequate curriculum and uncertified teachers, state auditors have cancelled or placed on probation all of the vocational education programs at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), according to a report released yesterday.
Forty neighborhood middle school and high school students--many of them "sentenced to literacy" as part of their probation terms--are spending the semester using the encyclopedia and the related website to learn about the Internet, as well as about global black culture and history.
ARRESTED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, baseball star, most recently of the New York Yankees; on charges of violating probation and using drugs while serving his sentence for a drug charge; in Tampa, Fla. Suspended from professional baseball, with a long history of arrests and drug problems, Strawberry was serving a sentence...
Apparently rushing the field is a Dartmouth homecoming tradition. Of course, so is losing to Harvard. Here's to those two brave souls, who risked probation and suspension to make a larger point to the Dartmouth administration: next time you invite all your alumni to attend a football game, don...
For admissions officers, there's a distinct hierarchy to recommendation letters. "Brilliant means more than bright," says Bowdoin's senior associate dean of admissions Linda Kreamer. "'Hardworking and motivated' probably means the student isn't too smart." Cornell readers bristled at a recommendation hailing a student who "cares more about...